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Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere : 200 B.C. to A.D. 500 / A. Martin Byers.

Author/creator Byers, A. Martin, 1937- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
Descriptionxi, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Subject(s)
Contents 1. Introduction: The Hopewellian assemblage and its social meaning -- 2. The community polity and the complementary heterarchical community : contrasting alternatives -- 3. The Ohio Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system and the Ohio Hopewellian ceremonial sphere -- 4. The sacred bundle and the symbolic pragmatic meaning of material culture : the transfer of Hopewellian ritual -- 5. The Hopewellian ceremonial sphere : deontic ecology and Hopewellian ritual and mortuary practices -- 6. Migrating bones, migrating people : funerary or postmortem sacrifical paradigms? -- 7. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian mortuary mound clusters : current views -- 8. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system : the dual altar crypt model -- 9. The history-in-mounds scenario of the Elizabeth Mound cult sodality heterarchy : demonstrating the dual altar crypt model -- 10. The floodplain and bluff-top Hopewellian sites of the lower Illinois Valley : alternative modeling of the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere of western Illinois -- 11. The Mann phase and the Indiana (Mann) Hopewellian ceremonial sphere -- 12. The Kolomoki Site and the Swift Creek-Weeden Island ceremonial sphere -- 13. The dynamics of a ceremonial sphere collapse : the nature of the Middle Woodland-Late Woodland period transition.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 407-417) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2015007938
ISBN9780806186887 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN0806186887 hardcover alkaline paper

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